'Thomas Jefferson On Black Colonization'

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Unlike the original document which consisted of Jefferson describing physical characteristics of Blacks and Indians and how he perceived their lifestyles. The second document “Thomas Jefferson on the Indian’s Future” actually talks about Jefferson’s political stance regarding the Indians, which is essentially he wants to steel all their land. In his letter to Harrison Jefferson talks in detail about his plan to force the Indians into giving up their land. He states, “we shall push our trading uses, and be glad to see the good influential individuals among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands.”(7) Jefferson writes that eventually the settlements will eventually …show more content…

The premise of the letter is he and Monroe are discussing about possibly making a black salve colony. Jefferson is apprehensive of having a colony like this a port of the union, he states, “questions would also arise whether the establishment of such a colony within our limits, and to become a part of our union, would be desirable to the State of Virginia itself, or to the other States- especially those who would be in the vicinity?”(10) Jefferson spend the rest of the letter discussing the various places they can send them. One of the main differences between this letter and the original letter is that in this one seems more impersonal. It’s less that he’s stating his own opinions, but more giving Monroe options on what to do. At the end of the letter Jefferson expresses his concerns in sending the slaves to the West Indies by stating, “The possibility that these exiles might stimulate and conduct vindicative or predatory descents on our coast, and facilitate concert with their brethren remaining

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